"Now recall the structure of negative liberty as it has long been conceived in the liberal political tradition. In contrast to any (positive) right to autonomy, the right to negative liberty is neither conceptually impossible nor morally indefensible under contemporary conditions. My interest in being left alone is sufficient grounds for placing others under duties not to molest or interfere with me; and these duties are sufficiently undemanding to be universalized to that, for example, we all have a duty not to invade anybody else's physical integrity.28 Appealing to negative liberty is one way to construct a justifactory argument for a right to physical integrity; but “not” the best way, which – as also with regard to privacy rights – is to argue from autonomy. In fact, the Interest Theory advocates a multi-layered and dynamic conception of rights, according to which a single right may be the ground of an almost endless number of duties, from which further rights and duties flow. These rights and duties can be described as coming in “waves”, or it might be said, less metaphorically, that derivative duty-imposing rights are elaborated through moral arguments which extrapolate from “core” rights and duties. A core right to physical integrity, for example, might include within its derivates victim's rights to receive compensation, as well as a bundle of criminal justice rights for the state to detect, catch, try and punish offenders in cases where a person's physical integrity has been violated unjustifiably."
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